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Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country — SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …
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| New York Times: |
Brazilian judge amends his order, no longer requiring Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app; those using a VPN to access X still face a ~$9K/day fine — The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.
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Forums: r/BlueskySocial and r/inthenews
| Matt Stoller / BIG: |
Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections is in jeopardy after a US court ruled TikTok's algorithmic curation is not protected by Section 230 — Algorithms are no longer a Get out of Jail free card. The Third Circuit ruled that TikTok must stand trial for manipulating children into harming themselves.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI is in discussions about changing its corporate structure to become more investor-friendly, including removing a cap on profits for investors — Discussions come as Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft consider funding round that would value start-up at more than $100bn
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a now-patched zero-day in a Chromium core engine to steal crypto from organizations — A North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a previously unknown bug in Chrome to target organizations with the goal … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant and ~25% of its staff, and signs a non-exclusive license to Covariant's robotic foundation models — Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for advanced warehouse robotics systems.
More: About Amazon, The Information, Bloomberg, and Covariant
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A Texas federal judge who held Tesla stock denies a motion to dismiss X's lawsuit accusing Media Matters of misrepresenting the amount of extremist content on X — Judge says Musk critic “targeted” advertisers in Texas, denies motion to dismiss. — A federal judge in Texas yesterday ruled …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google says Search AI Overviews, Gemini image generation, and other AI products will not respond to election-related topics ahead of the US elections — Google is gearing up for the upcoming U.S. presidential election by rolling out safeguards for more of its generative AI products.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The City of Columbus, OH, sues security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of sharing data stolen by a ransomware gang with media — The City of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf …
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Telegram's 2023 financials: $342.5M revenue, 40% of which came from crypto-related line items, and $108M operating loss; it had holdings of ~$400M in Toncoin — Pavel Durov's company has been coining it in — Pavel Durov's arrest in France for allegedly failing to control criminal content on Telegram … | New York Times: |
Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at US tech companies with E2EE messaging apps, like Signal, Apple, and Meta — The criminal charges against Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, raised concerns in Silicon Valley about encryption and the app's approach to privacy and security.
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X: @mikeisaac, @jake__coffee, @mikeisaac, and @mikeisaac
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned” of CSAM — LAION, the German research org that created the data used to train Stable Diffusion, among other generative AI models …
More: LAION, 404 Media, Forbes, KAAL-TV, IEEE Spectrum, Ars Technica, and The Verge
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